Episcopal here. The two top reasons:
-Everyone is welcome at the table
-Male and Female God created them. Male and Female we ordain them.
Plus, we know how to put on a brunch.
Episcopal here. The two top reasons:
-Everyone is welcome at the table
-Male and Female God created them. Male and Female we ordain them.
Plus, we know how to put on a brunch.
No, it’s not a zombie thread until someone resurrects it. Duh.
I’m a bemused evangelical Anglican with rationalist Roman Catholic tendencies.
Agnostic/weak atheist. No religion.
No, what you’ve seen is people who don’t believe in a creator. Not believing is not the same as “denouncing.” You can’t denounce what doesn’t exist.
atheist
Atheist of course. I’d add “Antitheist” as well, as I disapprove of religion and God (s) whether or not they are true.
Strong agnostic. I’m not sure, and neither are you.
You are correct. Poor choice of words on my part. :smack: And maybe I shouldn’t have asked for people’s religion as opposed to their beliefs but I wanted to get a breakdown of what religious groups people were associated with.
Looking at the “zombie thread” I find it fascinating that the majority of posters describe themselves as atheists (people who don’t believe in a creator) and agnostics (people who are unsure if there is a creator or not). This total is completely out of line with world percentages. Does that mean that the reported statistics are incorrect? Or that there is a greater propensity for non-believers and the unsure to this site? I won’t begin to try to figure that out.
I love the great debates and willingness of people to try to state their case rationally and coherently (outside of the Pit, of course ) along with the occasional smart-ass comment.
My personal definition of agnostic has never been that agnostics are people that are not sure if there is a creator or not. My agnosticism revolves around my not knowing what kind/type/persona of creator/first cause there is - although it is taken on faith that there is a first cause. People who don’t know ‘whether or not’ there is a creator/higher power/first cause are just ‘undecided’ in my book.
Is my personal definition of agnosticism not in line with everyone else’s? Here’s a complimentary definition:
ag·nosti·cal·ly adv.
Word History: An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist.
There was a thread a few years ago by a new member asking if there were any Christians on the board. It got a largish response. You’re right, though, we have a pretty big proportion of atheists and agnostics.
I’m brought up Anglican but most of the way to Roman Catholic.
Atheist. I don’t believe there is a god, but if given evidence, I’d concede a god exists. I’m pretty sure that if he does exist, he wouldn’t be a christian.
Thanks for the acknowledgement. Non-theists often have to contend with charges of being “anti-God.” Apologies if I seemed to sensitive about it.
It’s a good question. I do think that the board has a ratio of atheists and agnostics which is disproprtionate to the population at large. My guess is that the nature of Cecil’s column lends the board to a self-selected population of people who tend to be skeptical and empiricist in their attitudes. Dopers tend to be from Missouri, I think. You’ve got to “show me.”
Could be, but I don’t think you’ll find out from this thread. I suspect that there will be far more Dopers who don’t post here than who do; and there’s no way to know, nor any particular reason to believe, that those who do respond comprise a representative sample of the SDMB.
I do think we have plenty of Dopers who steer clear of religious debate threads.
Another pagan here.
I think I posted in the “dead” (since it’s not resurrected) thread. I’m still Pagan.
Atheist here. I have no belief in any god, I believe that all gods I’ve heard about don’t exist, and I have firm evidence that a subset of gods (like that of the inerrant Bible) don’t exist.
I agree that we are over represented here. I can be cheap and say Dopers in general are smarter than the average person, but I think the real reason is that scientists are over represented here, and the better the scientist the less the chance of god belief. Consider how many well known atheists or almost atheist agnostics (Gould, Sagan, Dawkins, Asimov) are scientists.
I’m Hindu, but not particularly devout. I also think I’ve been on a 5 or 6 year slide towards strong agnosticism, which might complete itself any day now.
Christian
Specifically Pentecostal
More specifically Assembly of God
I’m very curious to know if there are any other AG people on this board.
Christian - specifically a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - sometimes called “Mormon”.
I’m LDS (also known as Mormons). Long name: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.